[Microsound-announce] new release: ALVIN LUCIER (Anthony Burr / Charles Curtis)

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ANTIOPIC / SIGMA EDITIONS NEW CO-RELEASE:

ANTHONY BURR / CHARLES CURTIS
Alvin Lucier

ANSI002
running time: 96:23 (2xCD)

http://www.antiopic.com/catalog/ansi002.html

The work of Alvin Lucier needs little introduction. He is certainly one 
of the most innovative composers of his time, a pioneer and central 
figure in the world of experimental and electronic composition and 
performance. His early work, alone and in conjunction with Robert 
Ashley, David Berhman, Gordon Mumma and others in the Sonic Arts 
Union--which Lucier helped found in 1966--is musically rich while 
simultaneously exploring the many physical and psychic effects of sound. 
Pieces such as "I Am Sitting in a Room" (1970) and "Music on a Long Thin 
Wire" (1977) are unequivocal minimalist classics. Recent activity 
includes sound installation work and compositions for solo instruments, 
chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by concentrating on the 
combination of close tuning and pure tones, sound is subtly sculpted and 
shifted to create mesmerizing patterns and sonic shapes.

ALVIN LUCIER finds two extremely sympathetic interpreters of this 
approach in Charles Curtis (cello) and Anthony Burr (clarinet). This 
collection of compositions spread over two CDs, including a new piece, 
titled "Charles Curtis" and written by Lucier for this project, elicits 
an intense physical reaction - a testament to Lucier's poetic and 
scientific focus, as well as the deftness of technique with which Curtis 
and Burr execute these rigorously transcendent compositions. Packaged in 
a deluxe matte varnished fold-out digipak including a 20 page booklet of 
illustrations and writings by Alvin Lucier, Hermann Helmholtz and others.

Cellist Charles Curtis is recognized internationally as a performer of 
new and experimental music. Time spent studying at Juilliard and 
teaching at Princeton in addition to acting as director of La Monte 
Young's Theater of Eternal Music String Ensemble and working alongside 
free music and art-rock musicians such as Alan Licht, Dean Roberts, and 
Borbetomagus has positioned Curtis uniquely at the crossroads of 
academic and outsider music. Currently, Curtis is a professor of music 
at the University of California, San Diego.

Anthony Burr has performed extensively in the US, Europe and his native 
Australia, in a wide variety of situations playing the clarinet and live 
electronics. With artist Steve Ausbury, he created "Biospheria: An 
Environmental Opera", a site-specific piece based on the story of 
Biosphere 2, presented in San Diego in 2001 and in archive form at 
Cinematexas in 2003. Along with bassist Skuli Sverrisson, Burr is part 
of the Desist project focusing on improvised minimalism.

    CD I:

    In Memoriam John Higgins (1987)
    for clarinet in A and slow sweep, pure wave oscillator

    "On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon" (2000)
    for cello and pure wave oscillator

    Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
    Part III Number 11 (1984)
    for cello and pure wave oscillator

    Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
    Part I Number 1 (1984)
    for clarinet and pure wave oscillator

    CD II:

    Charles Curtis (2002)
    for cello and slow sweep, pure wave oscillators

    In Memoriam Stuart Marshall (1993)
    for bass clarinet and pure wave oscillator

    Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1993)

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